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In the telecare medicine information system (TMIS), to acquire the medical data, the patients need to log in to the remote medical server. Usually, each hospital has its server and they would not like to share the data with other hospitals. However, the patients are likely to upload their data to the different medical servers. In this case, since the patients have to register for these medical servers, they will need to save many keys for these servers. Hence, it is inconvenient for the patients to use these data. Moreover, the data may be tampered or deleted by an attacker or malicious staff in hospitals. To resolve these problems, we use blockchain to design a privacy-preserving scheme for TMIS. We integrate cryptography (broadcast encryption and Merkle tree) to construct our scheme. Moreover, we utilize the provable security theory to prove the security of our scheme. The security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme achieves privacy protection for the patients.

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We are appreciate for the helpful comments and suggestions of anonymous reviewers. This work is supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 62072051, 61976024, 61972048), National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFB1005900), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2019XD-A01).

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    Hao Lin, Hua Zhang, Huawei Wang, Yijie Shi, Fei Gao & Qiaoyan Wen

  2. National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC), Beijing, 100029, China

    Hanbing Yan

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Lin, H., Zhang, H., Yan, H. et al. A Secure Online Treatment Blockchain Service. Wireless Pers Commun 117, 1773–1795 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-020-07945-4

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